With the yet
to be registered All Progressive Congress (APC) yet to take off in Imo State,
sharp divisions has rocked the yet to be registered political party.
At weekend, the Chairman of the All Nigeria
Peoples Party (ANPP) in Imo State, Chief Vitalis Orikeze Ajumbe resigned after
serving the party for nine years.
There are
also feelers that the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) chapter in Imo State is
enmeshed in sharp division following concerns expressed by some stakeholders who are unwilling to cross over to the APC.
Investigations
by this blog reveals that these developments in Imo ANPP and ACN could be linked
to the concession of 50% slots of the State executives of APC to Governors in APC controlled States. This implies that in Imo State, Governor
Okorocha’s APGA will produce the party chairman and other relevant positions of
the new APC in Imo.
This is said
to have unsettled leaders of the ANPP and ACN in Imo State who are not only
fuming for losing their positions in their respective parties and will not have
any serious role in the new APC where Rochas will call the shots.
It was
learnt that most ANPP and ACN chieftains have been lamenting in low tones the domineering
and non accommodating brand of politicking practiced by Rochas wondering how
they will “fit” in the party where he (Rochas) will call the shots.
An ANPP
chieftain had lamented that when some APC governors visited the State for the second
year in office anniversary of the Rochas government, the APGA led government
never invited them only to print fake ANPP logos and hand them over to some
group of youths who are not ANPP members
“That was an
act of deceit. We were never invited only for us to see some group of boys and
girls waving ANPP flags when the APC governors came to Owerri. Tell me how we
can work in this sort of arrangement” he said
Another source said “Rochas One man show is
the genesis of the unwilling attitude displayed by members of other political
parties in the merger. The Imo ANPP Chairman has just resigned, but I can tell
you that he did so because he cannot be on the same page with Rochas who has a
domineering and non accommodating political posture”
However, an
Okorocha loyalist who pleaded anonymity disapproved these claims stating that
the Governor has severally extended a hand of friendship to leaders of other
parties in the merger which they refused to reciprocate
“In the early days of the APC formation, Governor
Okorocha had invited Chairmen and Secretaries of the ANPP, CPC and ACN in Imo State for a meeting at
Government House, Owerri, an invitation they spurned by not showing up”.
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